CHARADRIIDA, 579 
AMERICAN PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 
TRINGA MACULATA, Vieillot. 
‘SIBERIAN PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 
TRINGA acuMINATA (Horsfield). 
The American Pectoral Sandpiper has been observed in the 
British Islands with far more frequency than any other species of 
wader from the New World. The first authenticated specimen was 
shot in October 1830, at Breydon, Norfolk, in which county seven 
.more have since been obtained ; Suffolk can claim four; Yorkshire 
four or five (the last on September 28th 1897); Durham two; and 
Northumberland one, on June 27th 1853. There are also records 
of one from Eastbourne in Sussex ; one from Kent on August 2nd 
1898 ; two from North Devon; one from Falmouth in Cornwall ; 
_and four from the Scilly Islands—among the last an example on 
May 27th 1840. A young bird (one of three) was shot in Cumber- 
‘land on October 18th 1888. In Scotland, an immature bird was 
killed at Don-mouth, Aberdeenshire, on October 2nd 1867, and 
another (identified by Mr. Harting) near Loch Lomond on 
- November 24th 1882, while a third was shot at Westray, Orkney, 
by Mr. F. M. Ogilvie on August 26th 1889. In Ireland, Mr. 
Williams of Dublin found in the market a remarkably fat male, sent 
from Portumna, co. Galway, with Snipe, in October 1888.. Except 
where otherwise mentioned, all the above occurrences have taken 
place in autumn or winter. 
This species has not yet been met with on the Continent of 
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